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“The Afrikan American community cannot maximize its existence and quality of life unless and until it educates its parents, caregivers, and those who school its children, along lines appropriate to optimizing their mental and physical potential as well as their Afrikan consciousness, identity and common humanity. A significant part of the social chaos so typical of American society, in general, can be blamed on the fact that there is little, if any, formal preparation for full adulthood and responsibility.

The revolutionary change in the education of Afrikan children must begin with changes in the parent-child caretaker-infant relationship, followed by changes in the pre-school, elementary, secondary and post-secondary and school environments.”- Amos N. Wilson

While we spend MILLIONS of black dollars on Hollywood movies, like The Butler, The Help, 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, Red Tails, the Equalizer, and now Selma — where black degradation and passive resistance to white oppression are celebrated and ENCOURAGED…

do not fall for the white supremacist hype

do not fall for the white supremacist hype

Most of us have NEVER stopped and asked ourselves three critical questions:

1. Why are we trusting white supremacist Hollywood to teach us AND our children about our own HISTORY? The same history the same people LIE ABOUT in our history books?

2. Would the white people who control Hollywood allow black filmmakers to make movies about white OR Jewish History? (I think we all know the answer to that question).

Our sisters are killed unjustly by the police as well. We can never forget that. If black women are willing to stand by us,then we should return the favor. We can not just stand by and say nothing when our women and children are killed. And we will never get any respect from other races unless we stand up and let our voices be heard. That’s what real men do!

Here is a list of unarmed Blacks killed by police in the US. It is extremely incomplete. A complete list for just 2005 to 2012 would have at least 760 killings. I have only 6% of those. This list is just the tip of the iceberg.

Over the past few days I’ve been reading two sets of texts and I couldn’t help but notice the striking similarity between them. The first text is Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, and the second set of texts are articles on human rights and democracy as the new standards of measuring how civilized countries are.

In her book Alexander argues that the prison industrial complex is basically a transformed version of the Jim Crow system. Her main point is that following the civil rights movement and the collapse of Jim Crow, white supremacy had to find a new way to maintain racial inequality. This was done through two related processes: the War on Drugs and the expansion of the prison system. In other words, white supremacy persisted in a different form, and is perhaps even more dangerous because it is not overt anymore. No one is speaking about race…

Growing up in a SHYTSTEM/SYSTEM of racism/white supremacy, I was taught to maintain a posture and position of servitude. Coming from where I’m from, when elders spoke, the “respectful” thing to do was to avoid eye contact and listen. Looking in an adults face when being chastised was a sign and show of rebellion and was discouraged with a backhand. In addition, those of us of a darker hue, were typically singled out for ridicule and name-calling. “Blackie” was their favorite and keeping my head down and avoiding eye contact meant I could get where I was going without being noticed. I lived my life with my head down either in a book or roaming around the hood and my shoulders sagged, weighed down under the foot of oppression. I was made to think, feel and believe that I was unwanted and…

I’d like to share my working definitions of the terms “race”, “racism” and “racist”. My definitions are based on both the scholarship and scholarly works of those in the fields of law, medicine, social policy etc. and my personal understandings and experience with race, racism and racist’. I will also share my thoughts regarding the faulty and problematic use of the terms “systematic” and “institutional” racism’s. Finally, a suggestion is offered that is hoped to support individuals with taking active responsibility for producing a system of justice.

“Race” is a societal level* term used to identify an individual as part of a larger group that is joined together by a shared history, biology, experience and/or ancestry’. “Racism” is a system established in the U. S. that practices the targeting of one group to exercise power and control over their resources, individually and collectively with the use of intentional harm to…